With the 2023 season winding down, there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly to reflect on. While some may see more bad than good because of where the Mets currently sit in the standings, plenty of positives came out of the year. It was a revolving door year of rookies galore, with the core four of Brett Baty, Francisco Alvarez, Ronny Mauricio, and Mark Vientos finally taking the field together....
Every collector has at some point seen a card that they wanted, couldn’t afford, and thought to themselves, “I’m going to own that card someday.” I began collecting cards when I was five years old. It was 1986 and the middle of the junk wax era. Baseball cards were being printed at a rate that every person on Earth could be given 400 new cards every year without getting one duplicate. I stopped...
Julio Rodríguez is the recipient of the 2022 Jackie Robinson AL Rookie of the Year award. The Mariners outfielder played an integral role in the team breaking their long playoff drought, slashing .284/.345/.509 with a 147 OPS+ and a 6.2 WAR in 132 games. Rodríguez was a 2022 All-Star as well as a Silver Slugger, and could end up being a Mariner for the rest of his career after signing a 14-year...
